Sunday, January 2, 2011

Re: [NNSD] Promotion in Police Force

January 3, 2011

Madhav Ghimire
Chief Secretary
Government of Nepal.

Dear Madhav jee

People are outraged to learn about the injustice being meted out to SP Ramesh Kharel. People in Nepal have come to learn of him as an upright officer of integrity. Therefore, we seek your intervention to ensure that personnel as such aren’t demoralized.

Time has come for ‘we, "The NNSD Group"’ to make our mark, by going beyond, as you have aptly put it, “just writing and exchanging emails”.

We all know that, as it is, the promotion policy in Nepal follows Peter Principle under which “a person will rise to their level of incompetence” but situation gets aggravated when people of sound integrity are superseded in promotions. Therefore, each member of this group needs to raise the matter with the establishment forcefully. I have already sent emails to Leela Mani Paudyal and Bishnu Rijal. Now I am planning to forward this email to Madhav Ghimire.

I stand by Ratna Sansar ji for this cause and salute him for this initiative. This is not simply a case of promotion of one police officer rather it has much wider implication. If Mr. Kharel is denied of justice, it will again rock the trust of good, honest and sincere people in government service (who are rare to find). This has two fold negative impact, more people will be motivated to become sycophants while good people will be demotivated to work sincerely. They will also start neglecting their duty even if they cannot become one of the sycophants.

Is there anything that we "The NNSD Group" can do in this regard. Can we go beyond just writing and exchanging emails?